#9 Hospital at Horsham

One of the doctors, Roma Marrott, a very nice person, she and I were posted to No. 9 Canadian General Hospital in a place called Horsham in Sussex. No. 9 Canadian General, the buildings were what had been an old alms house, I suppose you would call it an alms house and so there was a variety of old buildings that probably had been built in the 1800’s but there was a chapel and there were these small different buildings where poor people had been living but they fixed it up very nicely for No. 9 and of course there was my first taste of seeing war casualties. I must admit that it was, it took me a while to realize the extent of what I was seeing. We were very busy as you could imagine, almost everybody needed physio and it was a small department, really quite inadequate but well-equipped but inadequate. So we did a lot of our cases on the wards as much as we possibly could unless they needed special equipment so we couldn’t have more than three or four patients at a time in our department.